Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Year's Art, 1898: A Concise Epitome of All Matters Relating to the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture and to Schools of Design, Which Have Occurred During the Year 1897; Together With Information Respecting the Events of the Year 1898
IN the present Volume of the year's art (the Nineteenth Annual Issue) an endeavour has been made further to increase its practical usefulness. The Artist's Calendar, one of the features of former editions, has been grafted on to an Artist's Diary, and it will readily occur to the orderly reader that this Diary should be a handy and appropriate place for an artist's working records, the mere noting of which may afterwards prove to be most valuable. Romney, perforce, used an ordinary farmer's almanac for his studio notes. What more fitting, then, for a con temporary artist than the Diary in the year's art, especially if that artist has had no small share in the making of the art of the year? Since 1888 upwards of four hundred portraits of artists and others connected with the art world have been given in the year's art, and, in continuation, the series in the present volume will be found to be a representative collection. The opening of the National Gallery of British Art in 1897, is a quite sufficient reason for choosing, as frontispiece to this volume, the portrait of Mr. Henry Tate. In the opening article, entitled The Past Year, my object has been to present a general summary of the year's art chto nicle; and in Notes on Architecture in Mr. Heathcote Statham again gives his readers the benefit of authoritative and instructive criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
